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The Korean dagger (국문)
While working as a Washington correspondent, there have been a number of awkward situations. One of them was when I read a piece by an American scholar at Sasakawa Peace Foundation in 2015. The author wrote, “The least bad policy option for Japan to …
July 12,2017
U.S. 8th Army finds new home in Pyeongtaek
The Eighth U.S. Army on Tuesday held a ceremony to mark the opening of its new headquarters in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, after relocating from the Yongsan base in central Seoul. Yongsan was its base for 64 years. The opening ceremony was held at Ca…
July 12,2017
Bus driver dozes off and kills two
A bus accident on the Gyeongbu Expressway near Seoul involving eight vehicles killed two and injured 16 on Sunday. The bus driver told police he dozed off while driving. A bus carrying three passengers was driving on the Gyeongbu Expressway, …
July 11,2017
A costly decision (국문)
The Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) Corporation has sent a letter to the companies building the Shin Kori 5 and 6 nuclear plants in Ulsan. In the letter, the KHNP, a state-run electric power company in charge of approximately 31.5 percent of the t…
July 11,2017
Crossed wires (국문)
“The government does not have a plan to raise the tax rate on diesel,” said Choi Young-rok, head of the taxation department at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance on June 26. “Overall diesel consumption should be lowered in a few steps,” said Ki…
July 11,2017
Moon urges action on North’s food crisis
President Moon Jae-in highlighted North Korea’s food shortage during a Group of 20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday, calling on the world to provide assistance and separate humanitarian aid from politics when dealing with Pyongyang. The st…
July 10,2017
An unfinished job (국문)
The Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, ended over the weekend with President Moon Jae-in making a successful debut for his first multipartite diplomacy. Four days before the summit, North Korea provoked the international community with its first…
July 10,2017
Nuclear options (국문)
At the end of last year, Japan decided to decommission Monju, a nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture. Monju is a special reactor that uses mixed plutonium-uranium as fuel. As it generates energy, it produces more nuclear fuel than it consumes. In the …
July 10,2017
Mother battles burger chain over girl’s illness
What was supposed to be a family outing to a fast food chain turned into every parents’ nightmare, and Choi Eun-joo is now waging a legal battle with one of the world’s largest corporations: McDonald’s. Choi and her husband took their four-year…
July 08,2017
Apples and oranges (국문)
Samsung Electronics delivered stunning and milestone-making earnings for the second quarter with operating profits at 14 trillion won ($12 billion) on sales of 60 trillion won. The company would have earned 1 trillion won every week during the last t…
July 08,2017
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